Boris Johnson is facing a showdown with furious Conservative MPs over his government’s chaotic handling of Covid-19, as a new poll shows the Tories have surrendered a massive lead over Labour in just five months. As MPs prepare to return to Westminster on Tuesday, Charles Walker, who is vice-chair of the 1922 committee of Conservative backbenchers, told the Observer that a recent string of U-turns had left many colleagues in despair, with some struggling to support and defend their government to constituents. Governing by U-turn in this way, he said, was unsustainable. Walker, who is normally counted as a firm Johnson loyalist, said: “Too often it looks like this government licks its finger and sticks it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. This is not a sustainable way to approach the business of governing and government. Too often it looks like this government licks its finger and sticks it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing“It is becoming increasingly difficult for backbenchers now to promote and defend government policy as so often that policy is changed or abandoned without notice. Whether this approach is by design or by accident, the climate of uncertainty it creates is unsustainable and erodes morale.”Walker and the chairman of the 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady, are expecting to have their “ears bent” by angry colleagues when MPs reconvene in the House of Commons, before relaying those concerns and strength of feeling to No 10. “We need to take the temperature on Tuesday and Wednesday and then decide what the plan of action is,” said a 1922 committee source.

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